Violinist Samuel Thompson, Featured Member at FracturedAtlas.org

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Featured Member: Samuel Thompson

EmilyB | Mar 26, 2009 10:48 am 

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Fractured Atlas member Samuel Thompson began playing violin at a young age and made his debut at the age of eighteen with the Carolina Amadeus Players Chamber Orchestra. He studied at both the University of South Carolina and Oklahoma State University, earning the Master of Music degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where he studied with Kenneth Goldsmith and Raphael Fliegel. Currently living in New York, Samuel recently took time out from his busy schedule of performing, editing recordings and writing about music and the arts to answer a few of my questions…

What’s next on your professional horizon?

At this moment I am continuing my fund raising efforts, with one goal being to participate in competitions in both the United States and Europe during the next three years. I am also continuing my associations with Carpetbag Theatre and Alternate ROOTS, and am working on what will be my first recording. With all of this, however, I have to say that “life can happen while you’re making plans”, so while my projects are dear to me — and some of them time-sensitive — I am also open to what the universe brings if I can bring the best of myself to it.

How can we learn more about you, hear your music, and learn about your tour schedule?

I have a blog/website (http://samuelathompson.blogspot.com) that contains a lot of information about my career and history as well as my performance schedule and my thoughts on many things. Both my concert schedule and audio samples can be found at ReverbNation (http://reverbnation.com/samuelthompson), a tremendous global online service for musicians.

Violinist Samuel Thompson Again Performs With Cortlandt Chamber Orchestra

Violinist Samuel Thompson will perform both Mozart’s Concerto in D Major, KV 218 and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Cortlandt Chamber Orchestra on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 7:30pm. This concert takes place at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church, 110 Grand Street, Croton-on-Hudson, New York. The performance, Thompson’s second appearance with the Cortlandt Chamber Orchestra, comes after his highly successful performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto during a 2007 concert to benefit the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra that became the subject of an article in the September 2007 International Musician.

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Samuel first performed as soloist in 1989 with the Carolina Amadeus Players Chamber Orchestra, and made his national debut with the National Repertory Orchestra in 1998. He was a semifinalist in the 2000 New World Symphony Concerto Competition and has been presented in concert with the Marian Anderson String Quartet.

2005 was a year of significance for Samuel, as he became the subject of international media attention during Hurricane Katrina. Maintaining a sense of loyalty to the New Orleans arts community, Samuel was recognized by National Public Radio in 2006 as one of ten artists whose work shows “their spirit, their spunk, and their commitment to Crescent City”. Information is available at CortlandtMusic.org/